About the Sawyer Pardo Fellowship for LGBTQ+ Health

The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is excited to recruit a physician-fellow for the Sawyer Pardo Fellowship for LGBTQ+ Health.  

The Sawyer Pardo Fellowship for LGBTQ+ Health aims to train physicians to be leaders in health care for LGBTQ+ and gender expansive individuals through clinical excellence, scholarship and advocacy for and with LGBTQ+ communities.  

The clinical focus of the fellowship will be community primary-care based, LGBTQ+ care with a scholarly focus on equity-based undergraduate and graduate medical education curriculum design, and LGBTQ+ community-based participatory research.   

Qualifications

  • Applicants must hold an MD or DO degree

  • Applicants must have completed residency in Family Medicine or Med-Peds 

  • Applicants are encouraged to apply while completing their final year of residency

  • Applicants must be planning a primary care career in academic and clinical medicine

  • Applicants must be a United States citizen or a lawful permanent US resident with a resident alien permit or green card.  The fellowship is not able to sponsor J-1 or other visas

Commitment to Inclusive Excellence 

The Sawyer Pardo Fellowship for LGBTQ+ Health aims to create an equitable and inclusive clinical and educational environment that values all identities, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation 

We recognize that the LGBTQ+ community faces health disparities and unmet health needs. We are committed to addressing these challenges alongside the LGBTQ+ community by providing exemplar and culturally humble care to our patients. 

Salary and Benefits: 

  • Fellows will be employed by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and University of Cincinnati Physicians. Salary is paid at PGY-4 level unless the fellow has advanced standing due to their previous graduate medical education. Benefits and CME are included.    

  • Fellows will receive the academic faculty title of Instructor, Department of Family and Community Medicine at the UC College of Medicine.

  • For more information on the benefits provided to fellows by the LGBTQ+ health fellowship, please visit the UC Human Resources Website

Members of the UC Foundation Board of Trustees, support a variety of UC funds that reflect their varied interests, including pioneering support for LGBTQ+ students.

“Pickle recognizes the dual importance of discussing the health disparities. To address health disparities and empower patients in their health care, more physicians need training in gender-affirming care. “

“A new fellowship at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine aims to help future doctors become experts in transgender and LGBTQ+ medicine. “

Images courtesy of genderspectrum.vice.com

Learn More About the Fellowship

The educational strategy for the fellowship is a 4-component model to training: Clinical Expertise, Advocacy, Research and Education. Using this model, the fellowship will create a scaffolding that is transferable to other institutions interested in developing a similar program.